South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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On This Account, And Because No Large Vessels Can Go To _Cambaietta_ Or _Cambay_, By Reason Of The Shallowness Of

The water in the gulf for 80 or 100 miles, the principal city of Cambaia or Guzerat is _Amadaver_ or

_Amedabad_, a day and a half journey from Cambay, being a great and populous city, and for a city of the Gentiles it is well built with handsome houses and wide streets. In it there is a fine bason or canul, having many ships, so that it resembles Cairo, but not so large.

Cambay is situated on the sea at the head of the gulf of the same name, and is a handsome city. While I was there it was suffering great calamity, owing to a scarcity, insomuch that the Gentiles offered their sons and daughters for sale to the Portuguese, and I have seen them sold for 8 or 10 _larines_ each, which is of our money about 10s. or 13s. 4d.[124]. Yet if I had not actually seen it, I could not have believed that Cambay had so great a trade. Every new and full moon, when the tides are at the highest, the small barks that come in and go out are quite innumerable. These barks are laden with all kinds of spices, with silks of China, sandal-wood, elephants teeth, velvets of _Vercini_, great quantities of _Pannina_, which comes from Mecca, _chequins_ or gold coins worth 7s. each sterling, and various other commodities. These barks carry out an infinite quantity of cloth of all sorts made of _bumbast_ or cotton, some white, others stamped or painted; large quantities of indigo, dried and preserved ginger, dry and confected myrabolans, _boraso_ or borax in paste, vast quantities of sugar, cotton, opium, asafoetida, _puchio?_ and many other kinds of drugs, turbans made at Delhi, great quantities of carnelians, garnets, agates, jaspers, calcedonies, _hematitis_, or bloodstones, and some natural diamonds.

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